** Einride said it develops its autonomous trucks in-house to deliver safe, clean, and efficient freight. | Source: Einride

While some companies have been coordinating documents for months to transport a batch of socks across the border, the Swedish company Einride simply removed them from the driver's cabin. And it worked. Their autonomous electric truck did something that still sounds like science fiction to many: it crossed the state border between Sweden and Norway on its own, successfully passing through all customs procedures.

Imagine this triumph of bureaucracy over common sense: a huge, soulless robot rolling down the road, and in its digital depths rests the most important cargo — a pre-approved customs declaration. No delays at the checkpoint due to a forgotten driver's passport, no arguments about what is written wrong in a piece of paper. "This is a historic step demonstrating how autonomous technologies and digitalization can optimize international trade," said an Einride representative.

But let's pay tribute to the real heroes of this process — not only the engineers, but also the customs officers who agreed to play by the new rules. After all, what is a drone for a system? This is a container on wheels with an advanced autopilot and, most importantly, with a fully digitized package of documents. The whole process was pre-coordinated with the Swedish Customs Service, which turned border crossing from an exciting procedure into a predictable algorithm.

Of course, in case of something unexpected, the truck could be controlled remotely. But the fact that the car went through most of the way, including the formalities, on its own is a powerful signal for the entire logistics industry.

What does this mean for us? The logistics of the future is not only about electricity and autonomy, but also about the complete digitalization of all related processes. Not only drivers will disappear, but also piles of papers, long waits at the border, and the human factor that can forget to put a seal in the right place.

This opens up new horizons for specialists as well. Now, to manage such a complex chain, we need not only logistics specialists and truck drivers, but also IT architects, cybersecurity specialists, and remote operators. And it is at the junction of these competencies that unique career opportunities open up, which are already beginning to be collected on platforms such as jobtorob.com .

Perhaps soon it will be as easy to "go through customs" for cargo as downloading a file from the cloud. The main thing is that the robot's Internet connection does not "hang up".